Ewing axe murder suspect still has no lawyer

TRENTON — Monday morning’s hearing for the woman charged with chopping her mother to death with a pick-axe on Halloween was postponed because she still hasn’t spoken to a defense lawyer.

Regina Wallace, 33, who appeared before Mercer County Superior Court Judge Thomas Sumners via video, was sent back to her cell with word that a public defender would come to see her later today.

Wallace is charged in the gruesome slaying of her mother, 53-year-old Sharon Wallace, at their home on Buttonwood Drive in Ewing. She was arrested the next day after she showed up at a hospital in Lancaster, Pa., and talked of being involved in a homicide.